Overview
Amanda Dorman focuses her practice on commercial litigation. Her background includes legal research, motion practice, case analysis, and trial preparation in a variety of civil and criminal matters. She has assisted with the preparation of appellate filings and trial-court motions involving employment law, insurance law, ERISA, business organizations, and multidistrict litigation.
Amanda has significant experience preparing legal research and analysis on a range of procedural and substantive issues including contract and tort disputes, constitutional claims, Administrative Procedure Act challenges, habeas matters, immigration issues, and qualified immunity questions. She has drafted orders and bench memoranda addressing motions to dismiss, summary judgment motions, jurisdictional disputes, procedural defects, and discovery matters. She has also supported trial preparation efforts by researching legal issues, drafting jury instructions, and preparing materials for hearings and witness examinations.
Before law school, Amanda developed and implemented marketing strategies for clients across a wide array of industries. Her foundational experience as a project manager and marketing writer cultivated a unique brand of resourceful ingenuity and versatile advocacy.
- Texas
- Hon. Ewing Werlein, Jr, US District Court, Southern District of Texas, 2024-2026
- Hon. Yvonne Y. Ho, US District Court, Southern District of Texas, 2023-2024
- J.D., University of Houston Law Center, 2023, magna cum laude; Order of the Coif; Senior Articles Editor, Houston Law Review, Board 60
- B.A., Baylor University, 2011
Noteworthy
- Excellence in Appellate Advocacy, State Bar of Texas, Appellate Section
Prior News & Publications
- Amanda Dorman, Note, The Enumeration Conflagration: Originalist Interest-Balancing Tests After Bruen, 60 Hous. L. Rev. 1143 (2023)
- Amanda Dorman, The American Nightmare-Dream: How Blurred Lines Between Human Trafficking and Sex Work Fuel Exploitation and Modern Slavery, 60 Hous. L. Rev. 17 (2022)